Title
Rank-two beamforming for single-group multicasting networks using OSTBC
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of transmit beamforming for single-group multicasting, where common information is transmitted to a group of users. Beamformers are designed to minimize the total transmitted power subject to quality-of-service (QoS) constraints for all users. In the conventional approach, a single weight vector is computed to jointly satisfy all requirements. However, in the case of a large number of users, the performance of the conventional beamforming methods usually degrades severely due to the limited degrees of freedom for designing spatially selective beamformers. Motivated by this, we propose a novel approach with increased flexibility in which the idea of single-group beamforming is combined with orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC). The proposed approach is particularly attractive in combination with the semi-definite relaxation (SDR) technique for which our approach is optimal in the case of rank-one and rank-two SDR solutions whereas the conventional approach is only optimal for rank-one solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SAM.2012.6250564
SAM
Keywords
Field
DocType
qos constraint,multicasting,degrees of freedom,quality-of-service,quality of service,orthogonal codes,sdr technique,rank-two beamforming,semidefinite relaxation technique,ostbc,array signal processing,single-group multicasting networks,transmit beamforming,radio networks,orthogonal space-time block coding,semi-definite relaxation (sdr),space-time block codes,single weight vector,orthogonal space-time block coding (ostbc),conventional beamforming method,signal to noise ratio,vectors
Beamforming,Mathematical optimization,Radio networks,Transmitted power,Computer science,Block code,Quality of service,Weight,Multicast
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1551-2282
978-1-4673-1070-3
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Wen1120.70
Ka Lung Law2162.80
Samer J. Alabed3383.83
Marius Pesavento461872.23